{"id":676917,"date":"2025-06-23T21:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-gilded-age-returned-with-a-question-that-will-steer-all-of-season-3\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:25:14","slug":"the-gilded-age-returned-with-a-question-that-will-steer-all-of-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-gilded-age-returned-with-a-question-that-will-steer-all-of-season-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Gilded Age\u2019 Returned With a Question That Will Steer All of Season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t[This story contains spoilers form The<\/em> Gilded Age <\/em>season three premiere, \u201cWho Is In Charge Here?\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tA year and a half since its season two finale, HBO\u2019s hit drama The Gilded Age <\/em>returned on Sunday without missing a beat. Picking up right where it left off, episode one app<\/a>ropriately asked, \u201cWho Is in Charge Here?\u201d Until now, the answer had been an easy one for spectacular sisterly duo Agnes\u00a0van Rhijn and the former Ada Brook, splendidly portrayed by Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon. For much of the series<\/a>, Agnes, as both the older and wealthier sister, called the shots. That dynamic shifted at the end of last season.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a ploy to hide his homosexuality, Oscar (Blake Ritson), Agnes\u2019 only child, squandered his mother\u2019s wealth pursuing a marriage with Maud Beaton. Just as the family, which also includes Agnes and Ada\u2019s niece Marian Brook, was packing up their treasured 61st Street mansion for sale, Ada discovered that her minister husband Luke Forte (Robert Sean Leonard), whom she buried too briefly after they wed, was not the man of moderate means she presumed. As his widow and sole heir, she became the wealthier sister. But, as the clich\u00e9 goes, old habits are hard to break for Agnes \u2014 and this new reality is at the center of episode one. Prior to the season three premiere, Gilded Age <\/em>creator Julian Fellowes explained why with a group of invited press.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m always rather fascinated by people who pretend that the loss of money, the loss of position, doesn\u2019t affect them at all, that everything can just go on as it did before. So, of course, it can\u2019t. And even today, we know that. But here we have Agnes whose belief in the essentially European concept of greatness by birth can\u2019t be shifted. She starts out pseudo confident that everything will be as normal. But of course, we know it won\u2019t,\u201d explained the Egyptian-born Brit.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cGradually during [this third] season, we see Ada gather the confidence that belongs to her, that is her right. And I just wanted to explore that shift, really,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe English are very given to believing that the loss of money hasn\u2019t affected anything. Of course, it\u2019s bollocks now, and it was bollocks then. Nevertheless, they deceive themselves more, I think, than the Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added that \u201cthe Americans are a more realistic nation about how it is now. And that\u2019s really what we\u2019re seeing with these two sisters and the others, Marian and so on, they understand the change that has taken place, but they don\u2019t feel it\u2019s their business to make the change obvious. It[s] between the sisters to come to terms with what is different.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat takes some time, he shared, because \u201cAda is a compliant person and wants things to be easy and wants things to go along\u201d and \u201cfor a time, because of her nature and her generosity really, she is content for Agnes to pretend that not too much has changed, but of course it has.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tBertha Russell (Carrie Coon, right) with Gladys (Taissa Farmiga) in the season three premiere.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tMarriage, as is customary for this genre, plays a big role in the series once again. Last season, Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) who, as a woman, is forced to channel her ambition into elevating her and her family\u2019s social<\/a> status, pulled off a major coup in her Opera War face-off with Mrs. Astor (Donna Murphy). Not only did she pack out the house in the new Metropolitan Opera House, but Bertha also secured the presence of Hector, the Duke of Buckingham (Ben Lamb), who had promised to attend the competing Academy of Music opening night hosted by Mrs. Astor. Curiosity around how has not ceased in episode one. As Bertha\u2019s daughter Gladys (Taissa Farmiga) nudges closer to marriage, clearly preferring Billy Carlton (Matt Walker), however, Bertha speaks more highly of the Duke and, by the episode\u2019s end, even announces his return to New York.<\/p>\n

\n\tBertha\u2019s rebuffs of any conversation of her Gladys marrying Billy sets in motion a larger debate around whether women in this era should marry for love or position. Gladys is convinced otherwise and awaits the return of her father, George, an aspiring titan of industry away from the family trying to manage and grow his empire, to give his blessing to her choice and not her mother\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\n\tForeshadowing one of the major conflicts in season three, Coon, who masterfully plays Bertha, offered insight into why the Russell matriarch and patriarch will be at odds over whom Gladys marries. \u201cThe woman\u2019s purview is very different. He doesn\u2019t understand our instinct for survival, which is, in this case, through marriage, and that Bertha really believes what she\u2019s doing is an existential question. She wants her daughter to be safe,\u201d she said. \u201cShe also wants her to be fulfilled and have a sense of purpose, because I think Bertha knows what it feels to have that capacity thwarted, she wants her daughter, she\u2019s hungry for her daughter, to have a kind of power she didn\u2019t have.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tSo next episode, Bertha will go from hinting at Gladys marrying the Duke to ensuring that she does.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn allowing Larry, Bertha\u2019s son who was last entangled with an older widowed woman, to pursue Marian (Louisa Jacobson) romantically, Fellowes and Warfield set up a counter to Bertha\u2019s view of marriage. It\u2019s a perspective Harry Richardson, who plays Larry, cherishes. \u201cI think what\u2019s really special about their relationship is that they have the opportunity to grow as friends first which I think societally at that time they didn\u2019t have the space to be able to go out on the town or to get to know each other before they started seeing each other in a romantic light and I think their dynamic\u2019s written very beautifully that they really start with that foundation of friendship and that foundation of care for each before they start contemplating a romance,\u201d said Richardson.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe dissolution of Agnes\u2019 niece by marriage Aurora Fane\u2019s (Kelli O\u2019Hara) union, prompted by a divorce request from her husband Charles (Ward Horton) who wishes to marry his mistress, illustrate what\u2019s at stake for women of this socioeconomic tier. As a divorced woman, she will become a social pariah. Men don\u2019t suffer the same fate. And, as the continuing storyline of van Rhijn\/Brook Forte house footman Jack Trotter (Ben Ahlers) and his patented alarm clock that his new business partner Larry hopes to sell, illustrates, men have additional outlets for economic elevation.<\/p>\n

\n\tDen\u00e9e Benton\u2019s very popular character Peggy Scott didn\u2019t see much action in episode one. But Peggy\u2019s illness at the end will prove a gateway to an even more robust world as actors Phylicia Rashad, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Jordan Donica help expand her world beyond Audra McDonald and John Douglas Thompson, who play her parents Arthur and Dorothy Scott, and Sullivan Jones, who plays historic Black news<\/a>paper publisher T. Thomas Fortune, her boss and inappropriate love interest.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the discussion, Fellowes\u2019 co-collaborator Sonja Warfield also noted that episode one\u2019s burning question (and title) of \u201cWho Is in Charge Here?\u201d doesn\u2019t end here. The whole season, she shared, is \u201cabout who\u2019s in charge: who is in charge in society, who\u2019s in charge of marriages, who has the power.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNew episodes of The Gilded Age\u2019s third season premiered June 22 and continue weekly through Aug. 10, streaming on HBO Max.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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